Ivars Gmizo · Malta · remote-first

I ship real MCP products solo. This is the receipts drawer.

Build-in-public teardowns, hard opinions on engineering leadership, and the AI-assisted workflow behind shipping like a team of several - written by the person doing the shipping, not the person selling the deck.

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18 Aug 2026 · Build in public · 6 min Flagship

I replaced Postmark with a pigeon

Twenty client domains made Postmark's per-domain math ugly, so I built Balodis: a multi-tenant transactional email service on Amazon SES. One day, 110 tests, about $13 a month. With an interactive calculator so you can run the build-vs-buy numbers yourself.